Ironing-machine



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. 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. '0. L. BRALBY 8a J. C. STEWART.' IR'ONING MACHINE.

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IRONING MACHINE.

No. 491,634. Patented Feb. 14, 1893.

z Fly WITNESSES.- 6% INVENTORSI BY jf@ @daagt ATTORNEY Unirse STATES.

1ihrrnNT OFFICE.

CHARLES L. BRALEY AND JOHN C. STEWART, OF BUFFALO, NEV YORK.

iRONING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,634, dated February14, 1898.

Application led April 7, 1892. Serial No. 428,110. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES L. BRALEY and JOHN C. STEWART, residing atBuifalo,

-New York, have jointlyinvented certain new and useful Improvements inIroning- Machines; and we do hereby declare that the followingdescription of our saidinvention,taken in connection with theaccompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exactspecification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in steam ironing-machines and moreparticularly to that class of ironing machines in which the linen ormaterial fed through them is ironed and polished upon both sides.

Its object is to produce a steam ironing machine which will expel themoisture and polish the material on both sides in a more rapid andeflicient manner.

It consists essentially in the novel and pecnliar combination of partsand details of construction as hereinafter iirst fully set forth andthen pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already referred to which serve to illustrate ourinvention more fully, Figure 1, is a side elevation of our improvedsteam ironing mangle. Fig. 2, is a top plan View of the same and Fig. 3,is a central longitudinal section, the rear roller being removed andpart of one of the bearing frames being in section. Fig. 4 is a detailplan View, on a larger scale, of the meeting ends of the supporting andbearing frames.

In referring to the drawings it will be seen that the frame of themachine consists of the side plates 1. 1. between which the steamironing beds or jackets and rollers are arranged. At the upper end ofthe side plates 1. 1. are arranged the adjustable bearing frames 2. 2.which rest. in horizontal longitudinal recesses 3. in the side plates 1.and are notched at their ends as at ai. so as to engage the beveled endwalls of the recesses 3 prevent lateral displacement and at the sametime permit the frames to be adjusted vertically. These frames a. areadjusted at will by the hand-wheels 5. which are mounted upon thescrew-threaded bolts 6.7said bolts being threaded through the frames 2.and

having their ends seated into the side-plates 1. as seen in Fig. 3. at7. Within these frames 2. are mounted the rollers 8. their journals 9.resting in spring-pressed bearings 10, which bearings may be adjusted bythe bolts 11, which tension the spiral-springs 12. against the bearingsasseen in Figs. 1. and 3.

Upon the journals 9. and at the outside of the side-plates 1. 1. arerigidly mounted the worin-gears 13. which intermesh with the Worms 14,mounted upon the shafts 15, by means of which the rollers 3, areoperated. Near the ends of the shafts 15, are mounted the worms 16,which communicate motion to the worm gears 17,m0unted upon the ends ofthe shaft 1S. Upon this shaft 13, is rigidly mounted the large roller19, just in rear of and concentric with which and secured to theside-plates 1, is the steam ironing and polishing jacket 20, the innerfaceV 21, of which is made to conform with the periphery of the rolleras seen in Fig. 3. The shaft 1S, of the roller 19, is mounted in boxes22, which travel in inclined recesses 23. in the side-plates 1. Rigidlysecured to the boxes 22. are the rods 24., which are loosely connectedat their lower ends to the pivoted levers 25, pivoted as at 26, andhaving depending weights 27. at their outer ends as seen in thedrawings.

Horizontally arranged between the side plates 1, and directly under therollers S, is the fiat hollow ironing and drying bed 2S, which is fedwith steam through the steam pipe 29. This [iat bed projects slightlyover the roller 19 and its upper surface is in the same plane with thehighest point of said roller.

in operation when it is desired to Operate our improved machine, poweris applied to the shaft 30, by means of the pulley 31, and transmittedto the horizontal shafts 15, by the bevel-gears 32, and pinions 33, fromwhich the rollers are revolved by the worms 'le and 1G, intermeshingwith the Worin-gears 13 and 17. The rollers S, are then adjusted by Ithehand wheels 5, by means of which they may be raised or loweredsimultaneously and adapted to receive the stock to be ironed. The linenor stock to be ironed is fed upon the jacket 28, at the right hand sideand is carried over the drying and ironing jacket IOO 28, by the paddedrollers 8, from whence itis fed onto the roller 19, Where it is ironedand polished by the steam jacket 20. The two steam drying and ironingjackets or beds being in such close proximity7 to each other and actingon both sides of the linen passing through it Without turning the linen0r carrying it by an apron enables us to give a xnuch better finish tothe linen and at the saine time accomplishes the Work in a much morerapid and expedient manner than in most mangles noW in use.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent is The combination of the main fra1ne,ahori zontallydisposed Hat ironing bed secured therein, a presser roller arranged inrear and slightly under the ironing bed and having the said adjustabieframes.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our invention We have heretoset our hands in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES L. BRALEY. JOHN C. STEWART.

Attest:

OTTO E. HoDDIcK, FERDINAND P. KERSTEN.

